As far as capturing lightning great job. I'm sorry but the pictures themselves are rather snap shotish like saltface had said. Is there a way to have gone to a better place? Also looking at the first one I can see some pretty bad compression in the clouds.

Take the first shot and kill the lights from the windows and kill the street. Because these are lit, your eyes are immediately drawn to them instead of the lighting. This will put the houses into silhouette mode and your eyes won't be focused on them. Next increase contrast and brightness to make the lightning pop out a bit more. Dodge the sky a little to knock it down a stop, crop in a bit tighter and I think you'll have a pretty good shot.